During the 2012-2016 research period we (i) devised pathbreaking algorithms for the functional identification and evaluation of non-linear dendritic processing (Channel Identification Machines), and (ii) released a groundbreaking open source platform for emulating the fruit fly brain on multiple GPUs (Neurokernel). We pioneered a multi-input multi-output neural circuits architecture for non-lin...

Background: Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide shown to attenuate inflammatory responses in both humans and animals, but the specific mechanism underlying these actions has not yet been identified. Preliminary research in humans suggests that monocytes (MOs) and macrophages (MPs) could be the target of anti-inflammatory actions of OT. Here, we present a series of ex vivo experiments in human MOs a...

Acknowledgements: This research was supported by a collaborative NSF grant #2015-0285-00. Over the last three decades, a research design has emerged to evaluate the performance of non-experimental designs and design features in field settings. It is called the within-study comparison (WSC) approach, or design replication study. In the traditional WSC design, treatment effects from a randomized ...

PURPOSE The effectiveness and limitations of indocyanine green (ICG) enhanced diode laser photocoagulation in treating subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were investigated retrospectively. METHODS Thirty-eight eyes of 37 patients with subfoveal CNV received ICG enhanced diode laser (wavelength, 805 nm) photocoagulation in our pr...